Carl-Richard

All I read is that you like to take a phallus up the ass More seriously: every expression is an excrement. Presenting a stance, taking a position, requires shitting on something. If you don't want to shit, then hold it in. You don't have to project this macho frame onto, about having the phallus or feeling superficially superior or powerful, or whatever Freudian "everything is fundamentally bad, painful and conflict-filled" frame. It's about expression. That's where your "dysthymic" self-identity comes from: from anally receiving Freud, shitting his turds in reverse (man, this is going places).

Nobody is obsessing about IQ here, no more than you're obsessing about hard work. Try getting into Harvard with 85 IQ. People say obsessing about IQ is a lack of holism. But completely disregarding IQ, or underestimating it, that's the true lack of holism.

I don't like Quad, I feel like it gives me ADHD.

No problem. Bernardo Kastrup has said some interesting things about psychedelics, and his opinions are naturally touching on academic sources, so I would maybe look into that. He talks about how psychedelics actually lead to a reduction in brain activity, which challenges the idea that brain activity can explain experiences. On a more personal level, he is skeptical of "psychedelic gnosis" (the knowledge you gain during a psychedelic trip), emphasizing the tendency towards fantasy (but his actual stance is more nuanced).

Eric Weinstein is a Harvard alumni.

In other words, let go.

I might test it officially after I start Dual 8-Back 😆 But for now, I would go by the thread I referenced.

23 year old ones?

At no point did he say brain wave programs should make us forget about meditation, nor did he reference any scientists who said that. So what made you say that?

You give very little specifics in terms of evidence though.

Anything can be a distraction from spirituality. But social games tend to drag you in in a particular way. If your friends go out to drink, they will say "hey, you joining drinking tonight?" and if you say "no" they'll say "cmon man, everybody needs to relax some time, am I right?". And if you say "no" enough times, they will think a certain way about you. But to be honest, if we're being realistic, you probably won't spend all of your available time doing spirituality anyway (which might be a good thing) and you will spend your time doing other things, and some of it will likely be mindless entertainment. Then you might as well socialize for a chunk of that time, and it will probably be healthier and more fulfilling than the alternative (depending on the circumstances of course).

Let's put it this way: do you want to listen to the couple of brain cells in the front of your brain (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the frontopolar cortex, all that good stuff) that tells you " tHiS iS tHe sCiEnTificALly oPtiMaL wAy tO liFt", or do you want to listen to literally every cell in your body? That rush you feel to move that weight super fast and super forcefully, that's billions of years of genetic memory at work pushing you to do that. Forget the memory in your little tiny monkey brain. Let the memory of the entire universe flow through you. Let the spirit of God move through you (literally; lifting at your peak is a mystical experience, it's a Jesus take the wheel type experience). Remember back to grade school when the class went for a bike trip and how all the boys were like rushing and blasting full cylinders from the very start and how all the girls (some of them) were like "you know you shouldn't spend all your juices at the very start, right >:(?" Why would you hold back that natural forceful energy, that primal energy, that natural adaptive force, like some giiiirl (just joking), when you can use it exactly the way it was intended? Evolution pushes you to act within your adaptive capacities and pushing it to the limit. That's how you survive and that's how you grow. (But of course, weaksauce training with immense volume might be better for hypertrophy in some cases, but as a general catch-all approach to training, when looking at all the benefits of training, without a doubt, you should go full intensity, or else you're just wasting your potential).

Wtf And wtf is a "brian (brain) frequency program"?

By aliens? 🫨

Get high enough and you stop seeing your own IQ as a limitation and you care about it less. That's pretty high yeah. There is like one dude on the forum who scored over 150 on some non-official test in an older forum thread, and you can notice.

Sam Sulek echoing the principles of holistic lifting vs reductionistic lifting. Moving a weight cannot be reduced down to simple commandments. You have to develop it by doing it and feeling it out. The church of science-based lifting is what bible-thumping intellectualized religion is to ass-to-grass embodied spiritual practice. And you also have to be aware of your goals. Are your goals improved mood, improved focus, is lifting something fun, do you want to maximize performance, do you like performing at your max, or are you simply about maximizing pounds of meat on your frame? Working out does not just affect one thing, people extremely rarely only do it for one thing (and ideally, you do it for everything.

What kind of degree?

What's your IQ?

Not music related, just a steaming hot man 😜

God created The Architect, but who created God? 🤔 Checkmate theists, I'm an edgy atheist now.

You can load "this" with whatever assumption you want to force a fake sense of closure that favors your perspective. But if you actually ask me, "this" might involve anything and everything that might possibly exist or could ever exist, hidden or immediate. But from the absolute perspective, I can't say one way or the other. In that sense, I'm not a solipsist.

Shut up, you have no experience. NPC speaking to me, pfffft.

Enlightenment is the strategy. Use every challenge for what it is. The loneliness you feel, that is what you need to understand and learn. How does loneliness work? What thoughts create it? What creates thought? Can you let thoughts just be what they are?

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